Maria Semple Quotes

One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

Maria Semple

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Hero
  • Head
  • Stone

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Successful
  • Creation

• I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Chocolate
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Think
  • Possible
  • Housing

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Been
  • Four
  • Seasons

• When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • God
  • Reason
  • Pray

• Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Happiness

• I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Don't Know
  • Run Out
  • Counted

• Every family is dysfunctional.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Family

• America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • America
  • True

• One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Character
  • Growth